2025 ACT Program: Press Start!
PRESS START transports us inside the bright, pixelated world of video games! When the famous characters we know and love run out of lives, they decide to put on a musical fundraiser that will help them raise gold rings and play on. Through hilarious and heartfelt musical numbers we see the heroes, villains and sidekicks like we’ve never seen them before. But when things go terribly awry, it’s the quiet sidekick Little Mushroom who must find the hero within to help save the day!
More information on our 2025 ACT coming soon!
To learn more about ACT, read our general information below!
Press Start, Ashland Productions 2019
Press Start, Ashland Productions 2019
Everyone gets a role. Everyone gets a line. Everybody is onstage all the time.
Is your school interested in being part of the ACT Program??
Email jack@ashlandproductions.org
Sing and dance to more than a dozen songs from this up-beat and heartfelt show, and even get a chance to perform them in front of an audience on a real theater stage! Come rehearse with fabulous directors 2 days a week at your school and have fun becoming a character! At Ashland, we value the experience of rehearsal, and how much fun can be had in just making the show itself. If you're a parent who's interested in signing your student up at your school, and have any additional questions about the program, please reach out to Jack Lambert at jack@ashlandproductions.org.
What is ACT?
Ashland Collaborative Theatre (ACT!) is an exciting artist-in-residence program for schools of all sizes. This innovative program allows schools to offer their students a one of a kind theatre arts program for low or no cost to the school. Ashland artistic staff work with students each week at the school learning the songs, dances and lines for a full youth production. Learning the show is only part of the fun. Students will also learn performance fundamentals and team work with interactive theatre improvisational games.
During the last week of the program, the students’ worlds open up as they take the rehearsal process to the Ashland Productions stage. Students top off the experience by showcasing their hard work with several performances for their school, family, friends and community with professional sets, costumes, lights and sound! Your students will come away with improved poise, self-discipline and self-esteem - skills that will help them at school and last for a lifetime!
If your school is interested in being a part of ACT! or you have any questions, please contact our Youth Programming Director, Jack Lambert, by email at jack@ashlandproductions.org.
2024-2025 ACT Registration
Follow the links below to register your student for your school’s ACT Program!
School’s listed in alphabetical order, added as registration dates are set
Carver Elementary
Registration opens on 11/4
Lakeaires Elementary
Registration opens on 11/18
Middleton Elementary
Registration for MIDDLETON has closed
OH Anderson
Registration open until 11/5
Contact jamie.ohara@isd832.net for more information on registration
Oneka Elementary
Rehearsals have begun and registration for ONEKA has closed
Otter Lake Elementary
Registration opens on 10/28
Richardson Elementary
Registration opens on 11/11
Rutherford Elementary
Registration has closed
St. Ambrose of Woodbury
Registration has closed
Transfiguration
Registration has closed